--> He took over as Director, ISAC from
S K Shivakumar, who superannuated on March 31, 2015.

--> As Project Director, Annadurai made
the most crucial contribution to the realisation of India's first Lunar
Mission, Chandrayaan-1, which won many appreciations and awards including the
prestigious Space Pioneer Award, 2009.

2) World Health Day observed:

--> World Health Day (WHD) 2015 was
observed globally on 7 April 2015.

--> The theme for the year is From farm
to plate, make food safe.

--> The theme was selected by the World
Health Organisation (WHO) to bring focus on growing global burden of food borne
diseases and underscore the need for coordinated cross-border action across the
entire food supply chain i.e. from farm to plate.

3) IPL 8 Opening ceremony held at Kolkata:

--> Bollywood-style opening ceremony
kick started the eighth edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket after a
one and a half hour delay (due to rain) at the decked-up Salt Lake stadium in
Kolkata on 7 April 2015.

--> The eight skippers led by India
captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni signed the MCC Spirit of Cricket pledge to start
IPL-8 formally in front of Ravi Shastri before they posed for a formal group
photo.

4) First bi-monthly monetary policy review- RBI kept rates
unchanged:

--> Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor
Raghuram Rajan on 7 April 2015 kept policy rate unchanged awaiting clarity on
impact of unseasonal rains on food inflation even as he anted banks to pass on
benefits of previous two rate cuts.

--> The repo rate, at which RBI lends to
the banking system, will continue to be at 7.5 per cent and the cash reserve
ratio (CRR), which is the amount of deposits parked with the central bank, will
remain at 4 per cent.

5) TRAI recommended '112' as single emergency number for
India:

--> A single number '112' can be used
for all emergency phone calls across the country including for police, fire and
ambulance, telecom regulator TRAI proposed on 7 April 2015.

--> Similar to the '911' all-in-one
emergency service in the US, government can integrate all existing emergency
numbers such as 100, 101, 102 and 108 into the proposed '112' helpline number,
TRAI said in its recommendations on emergency number.

--> TRAI has also recommended that
access to emergency facility should not be allowed from mobile handsets or
devices which do not have a SIM.

6) Gujarat won Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy:

--> Gujarat cricket team on 7 April 2015
won the 2014-15 Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy played at the KIIT Cricket Stadium,
Bhubaneshwar.

--> Gujarat defeated Punjab by two
wickets in the final.

--> The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a
domestic Twenty20 cricket championship organized by Board of Control for
Cricket in India, among the teams from Ranji Trophy.

7) Sumit Mazumder is the new president of CII:

--> Sumit Mazumder, Chairman &
Managing Director, TIL Limited, has been elected as the President of
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16.

--> The Union Cabinet chaired by the
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on 7 April 2015 gave its approval to release
an additional instalment of Dearness Allowance (DA) to Central Government
employees and Dearness Relief (DR) to pensioners with effect from 01 January
2015 at the rate of six percent increase over the existing rate of 107 percent.